COFFEE THROUGH TIME
Ethiopian shepherd named Kaldi. Noting that his goats
an unfamiliar tree， Kaldi sampled a few. Before long，
everyone in Ethiopia was chewing cofi~e berries.
It was not until four hundred years later that someol
finally thought to roast the beans inside the berries and
make a hot drink from them. To a Moslem world that
forbade the use of spirits， coffee was a welcome alterna-
tive. The Arabs called it qahwcgt， meaning \"stimulating
wine.\" ，
By， the fifteenth century ArA~)ia was cultivating coffee
trees in Yemen and exporting tt~em across the Levant，
from Aden to Cairo to Constantinople. Western travelers
to the Levant began returning with reports of an exotic
\"black water\" that had arousing medicinal powers. But
the Arabs kept a tight monopoly on the cott>e trade unti
the seventeenth century.
When Venetian tra~iers brought the first coffee beans
into Europe during the early 1600 s， the drink won in-
stant favor. As coffee perked its way across Europe， the
first public coffeehouses， or cards， opened in Venice.
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